(Not to lend any support to Budweiser, mind you.)
My wife and I just visited Castro in May. She was teaching a class on gender studies at a university, so we took a lot of digial photos of the flags in the area for use in her class.
Yeah, rainbow = gay. A Rainbow flag at the door of the bar would be like sheep’s blood on the stoop of the door.
Huh. Didn’t know we had a flag.
I definitely know rainbow=gay, but I’m not a great example because between the ages of, oh, 10 and now, I’ve known and loved many, many, many gay people.
I didn’t know of it until I was an adult. Perhaps until I moved to the US? Maybe a few years previously.
Buh-wuh? Miller is a huge supporter of the LGBT community, at least in Wisconsin. Are you sure you aren’t confusing them with Coors?
I was in Provincetown about a dozen years ago with some friends; we’d head out there each summer for beaches and seafood and general relaxing. While walking from the campsite to dinner one evening my friend Ed looked at all the rainbow stickers on cars and said “There must be a gathering of Polaroid employees in town.” We waiting a while to inform him.
A quick Google search seems to indicate that you’re correct. The top results were all about the Catholic League calling on religious organizations to boycott Miller for its sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair. Although it does look like Miller folded to some extent, so maybe they got boycotted from the other side.
And, yeah, I’ve known for years what the rainbow flag means, and what sort of clientèle a business would be trying to attract in displaying it prominently.
It wasn’t just Miller’s sponsorship of the fair, but its logo’s placement on the Last Supper parody poster for the fair. No, it doesn’t make Baby Jesus cry nor, as Nancy Pelosi sluffed it off, does it “harm Christianity”, but that poster is deliberately provocative.
Of course, if there were famous Islamic artworks to parody, I’m sure the poster designers would have been just as daring. :dubious:
Stuff like this just gives Bill Donahue a reason to get up in the morning.
Oh- I agree with you. Back twenty years ago, a book called HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW came out as an expose’ of the New Age Movement. While it did
show a certain disturbing globalist-socialist agenda on the part of the Matreiyan movement (you may recall the full-page “The Christ Is Now Here” ads put up by
Benjamin Creme of the Tara Center), which developed out of Lucis Trust and the
Theosophical Society, it also painted a lot of people with a BROAD brush. Pretty soon the author was denouncing Newt Gingrich as a New Ager and hinting that
Pat Robertson might become the AntiChrist. And of course, anything with rainbows and unicorns was to be viewed with great suspicion!
I almost always wear a Celtic Cross- depending on the observers prejudices, that could tag me as anything from Druid to a White Supremacist.
Btw, the Folsom Street Fair doesn’t seem to be a totally gay thing- but a SM/BD
thing.
Is it just an accident btw that SDMB has the same letters? 
Yes, I agree! I’m a straight girl but I doll myself up in rainbow everything. 
My shoes have rainbows on them, my belt is rainbow studded, I wear rainbow socks and shirts with rainbows on them, I have two rainbow bracelets and from time to time I have rainbow hair.
Sometimes people think I’m gay, I just say, “Nope, I’m not gay, I just really like rainbows!” So far no one’s given me grief about it. I went to the gay pride parade and was happy to see all the rainbows. 
Hee.
I’m 12, inside.
I do know what the gay pride flag looks like (and I think it’s pretty)! I live close to what I guess is the major gay district in Vancouver and many businesses have the flag hanging or as a sticker on their windows.